Contemporaneous is a versatile, entirely youth-run new music ensemble based in New York, devoted to presenting programs of music by living composers both emerging and established. In its 2010 inaugural season, contemporaneous performed five concerts at Bard College, the Hudson Opera House, and Christ & St. Stephen's Episcopal Church in New York City. Headlined by seven world premieres and numerous regional premieres, the 2010-2011 season includes eleven concerts across New York. The ensemble seeks to showcase the transition from contemporary music, the music most often associated with the word "modern" — Schoenberg, Stravinsky, even Boulez — to music which is "contemporaneous," the music of our generation.

Hailing from four continents, the over 25 members of contemporaneous are avid entrepreneurs and enthusiasts for the promotion of awareness and appreciation of new music among audiences of all types. Though most of our musicians study at Bard College, contemporaneous is an independent ensemble not supported financially by the College. We are a not-for-profit organization incorporated in the state of New York, and we are currently applying for federal tax exemption under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.